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Why would a thirty-something, football-playing, cricket-loving, agnostic lawyer abandon a comfortable suburban existence in favour of an Indian ashram? How would he, his wife and two small boys manage that radical transition? What would be the reaction from family and friends affected by this move in 1978 from Perth, Western Australia to Poona, India? And how would it all pan out? These questions are addressed in a frank and compelling memoir by the author. He takes us on a roller-coaster ride through his early childhood, university days and working life before his world is upended when he encounters Osho - the controversial guru formerly known as Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh. Plunged into group therapy and strange meditation practices; marital disintegration and sexual experimentation, the author whirls in this spiritual washing machine for seven years before leaving the imploded cocoon of a commune to face fresh challenges, including how to apply any insights and understandings into regular life - and to address lingering issues in relationship, parenting and more. This book will be of interest to those who have searched for meaning and purpose outside of mainstream religion or a consumer-driven society. It will also appeal to readers who may have never dipped toes into these waters but remain curious about the motivation and outcomes for those who do.

Although there are now a large number of computer programmes for solving all sorts of foundation design problems, the need to check these outputs by 'hand-calculation' has become vitally important. This book concentrates on getting the fundamentals right and then using them in practical applications. The book is illustrated with numerous worked examples and with quick-reference tables and charts. In this new edition, the original highly acclaimed text has been extended and updated and now includes major new sections on short term and long term stability, critical state interpretation of peak strength, seismic methods for measuring ground stiffness in situ, and offshore pile design: total stress and effective stress approaches.A

This book explains the process of ground formation – what it is made of and how it behaves as an engineering material. This enables the civil engineer to work from a few first principles to determine if the ground is an asset or a hazard.

This work comprehensively treats soil & rock slope engineering in one volume. It focuses on getting the fundamentals right, explaining simple methods of stability analysis, and applying them to a wide range of practical applications.

A family history, exploring the lives of immigrant ancestors and their offspring, arriving in New Zealand and Australia in the 19th century

An Australian couple make their first trip to the African continent where they go on walking safaris in Zambian National Parks

An Australian couple stay in the village of Menerbes and experience the many pleasures of Provence, exploring the villages and walking in the natural beauty of the Luberon Regional park.